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The anthropological turn : French political thought after 1968

Author: Jacob Collins
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series: Intellectual history of the modern age.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Anthropological Turn: French Political Thought After 1968 is a history of contemporary political and social ideas in France. The central chapters are devoted to four thinkers who have been overlooked in historical scholarship, but whose intellectual systems could not be understood without reference to Lévi-Strauss, Durkheim, Dumézil, Bourdieu, and others. It seeks, along with the above-named histories, to  Read more...
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Genre/Form: History
Named Person: Alain de Benoist; Marcel Gauchet; Emmanuel Todd; Régis Debray; Alain de Benoist; Régis Debray; Marcel Gauchet; Emmanuel Todd; Alain de Benoist; Marcel Gauchet; Emmanuel Todd; Régis Debray
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jacob Collins
ISBN: 9780812252163 0812252160
OCLC Number: 1117309652
Description: 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : France in the 1970s and the making of political anthropology --
Toward a white nationalist Europe : the archaic fantasies of Alain de Benoist --
Marcel Gauchet and the anthropology of the state --
Family ties : the anthropology of Emmanuel Todd and the identity of France --
Tracking the sacred : the political anthropology of Régis Debray.
Series Title: Intellectual history of the modern age.
Responsibility: Jacob Collins.

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Focusing on four influential, yet typically overlooked, French thinkers-Regis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de Benoist-The Anthropological Turn shows how key issues of religion,  Read more...

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"Jacob Collins identifies a uniquely defined anthropological current in 1970s French thought and shows how reflection on the so-called primitive served theorists' efforts to grapple with Read more...

 
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